Xterm configuration

Overview

Xterm is the native Terminal emulator of X window system. This article will provide some useful options to configure Xterm to be usable and comfortable.

NOTE: This article was written for Arch Linux but can be applied to other Distros with some different approachs.

Xterm configuration

Config file location

Xterm is configured though X resources file ~/.Xresources , this file may not exist by default, you can manually create it with any text editor.